History GratuitousEnglish / Music

* Most Japanese Music/{{Vocaloid}}s were pretty bad at pronouncing any English word before they got an English voice bank.[[note]]as of now, Luka, Miku, Rin, Len, Kaito, Meiko, Gumi, and Fukase, with more on the way[[/note]. Try Miku's "Cinderella romance" (SUPAA POWAFURU SINDERRA, LOVU LOVU LOVU LOVU LOVULII DAHLEEN! SUPA POWA FURU LOVU ATTAKKU!).

* It seems as if J-Pop singers in the late 1970's-80s were obligated by contract to have at least one English song. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Yjz4lKh_4 Minako Yoshida]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIBMj8bEbtk Junko Ohashi]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mib-bC9DPXk Kimiko Kasai]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z7VaZsbHxU Tatsuro Yamashita]] all got in on it, the latter doing so multiple times. However, while the efforts from the previous four were actually [[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish pretty well done]] compared to the English in J-Pop today, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8WONUCJrZw this]] falls squarely into Gratuitous English.

* Essentially anything by the Japanese band ''BACK-ON.'' The best part about it though is that most of it is ''rapped'' perfectly (pronunciation, grammar, etc). From ''Blaze Line,'' the theme song to ''Anime/Eyeshield21'':
--> ''Hey, cheerleaders!''
--> ''Come on, shake your ass!''
--> ''Shake your tits for me!''

* Namie Amuro's [[http://www.jpopasia.com/celebrity/namieamuro/videos/neonlight-lipstick::39103.html "Neonlight Lipstick"]] is a weird case of this. The chorus and last verse are entirely in English, and the verses that ''do'' have Japanese involve a lot of code-switching between the two. It's not particularly ''bad'' English for J-Pop, but the song ends up having ''more'' English than it does Japanese.

* Most Japanese Music/{{Vocaloid}}s were pretty bad at pronouncing any English word before they got an English voice bank[[note]]as of now, Luka, Miku, Rin, Len, Kaito, Meiko, Gumi, and Fukase, with more on the way[[/note]], who actually has an English voice bank). Try Miku's "Cinderella romance" (SUPAA POWAFURU SINDERRA, LOVU LOVU LOVU LOVU LOVULII DAHLEEN! SUPA POWA FURU LOVU ATTAKKU!).

* ''Music/{{Polysics}}''. Many of their songs have titles that're just plain GratuitousEnglish, and some (i.e. the infamous ''New Wave Jacket'' which became famous due to MemeticMutation by way of an WebAnimation/{{Animutation}} by Creator/NeilCicierega) has lyrics that falls squarely into this trope.

* Los Shakers were a Uruguayan rock band of the sixties who were heavily influenced by Music/TheBeatles, and despite the fact that they primarily played to a South American audience, they recorded most of their songs in grammatically shaky English. For instance, "Break It All" has the refrain "But when the music start / don't stand there like a fool / and break it all / you listen me, break it all".

* Most Eurobeat songs. It's produced mostly in Italy and sold mostly in Japan, and of course, neither are English-speaking countries. English covers of Japanese songs, such as "Hot Limit", are especially gratuitous. A few singers, eg Domino, sometimes sing in GratuitousJapanese.
** That's because a lot of dance music (from non-English speaking European countries) have songs in English. To be fair, the English is often a bit better than what Japanese music has in regards to English song lyrics.

** It's pronounced ecstasy, the song title, XTC, is just a pun.
*** Or maybe it's a ShoutOut to the band Music/{{XTC}}?

* ''Con te partirò''. The [[http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/cits/sb/sb412.html#lyrics lyrics]] are entirely in Italian, but in most performances a couple of lines are replaced with the English line: ''Time to Say Goodbye''.
** Music/DonnaSummer's otherwise fully [[TranslatedCoverVersion English cover]], "I Will Go With You", drops the original title in the second phrase of the chorus, making it GratuitousItalian.

*** Which actually comes out sounding more like banana. HilarityEnsues.

** A note about Japan's apparent love affair with the word "fuck". The combination of straights and curves it presents is aesthetically pleasing to them, so people who don't know what it means might throw it on somewhere just to have some nice-looking detail, oblivious to what American viewers are going to think.

*** Don't forget "Shawty I'll party till the sun down" and "Roll like a buffalo, whoops they already know..."

* The Russian {{trance}} song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsR3BrXZOTM "www.Germany.ru" by Valday]], despite its name, doesn't feature any GratuitousGerman, but it does have a smattering of gratuitous English words such as "internet", "electronic", "megabyte", and "site".
** In this case, this is not gratuitous English, but proper loanwords, because saying "vsemirnaya pautina" for Internet and "setevoe mesto" for "website" would sound really awkward, and Russian does not have local names for megabytes and electronics.